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pencablecoffee

5 karma · joined June 20, 2023

NYC engineer and musician. This is somewhat of a throwaway account to keep some startup founder questions away from my main account.
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pencablecoffee··on Ask HN: Payment gateway for multi-vendor marketplace as an early stage startup?
This is something I’m considering. I can go live with a single PayPal business account since initial users will be limited to a very small pool of testers. I can have PayPal Commerce Platform working via Sandbox account and ready to go and can do something similar for Stripe Connect. But I need to pick what gets my attention ruthlessly, especially so early, and I’d like to have one reliable partner early on so I can focus on the product.
pencablecoffee··on Ask HN: Payment gateway for multi-vendor marketplace as an early stage startup?
I’m in a major US city and it seems extremely challenging to get this going, I’m sorry you’re going through an even more extreme version of it!

It’s so frustrating. For the longest time, I’ve been wondering why nobody comes with the elephant company that dominates my domain and I’m starting to think this is a big part of the answer. The system seems designed for established companies or folks with a lot of resources. Launching any startup is tough, this is something I worry tenacity and product engineering talent alone can’t get past.

pencablecoffee··on Tell HN: Stripe killed my music locker service, so I'm open sourcing it
This is very relevant to my immediate needs. I just posted a question to Ask HN seeking advice on this topic and hadn’t heard of payplug. Do you have any experience with them as part of a multi-vendor marketplace product?